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The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons
Back around 2000 or so, Nintendo began working on three Legend of Zelda games for the Game Boy Color that could be inter-linked by a password system. These games would all be based around the three parts of the Triforce and be called The Legend of Zelda: The Mystical Seed of Power, The Mystical Seed of Courage, and The Mystical Seed of Wisdom. However, it proved to be too difficult to coordinate a password system for all three games in a way that they'd work together, thus the team scaled back to two games. With this, Mystical Seed of Wisdom was cancelled, Mystical Seed of Courage was turned into
Oracle of Ages
, and Mystical Seed of Power was turned into Oracle of Seasons. I'll be looking at both of these games (in a separate review for each) and utilizing the password features in them, so let's begin with The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons.
As the game begins you wake up in a field and wander around to find a small encampment led by a dancer named Din. Din explains that she's been taking care of you ever since she found you unconscious. About that time an evil villain named Onox appears, destroys the encampment, captures Din, and decimates a place known as the Temple of Seasons. This throws the seasons around Holodrum into complete chaos with different areas being permanently set to a certain season. As you wander around and arrive in Horon Village you meet the Maku Tree who explains everything that's been happening with the changing seasons and explains about the Essences of Nature. To set everything right you must collect all eight essences and confront Onox to rescue Din.
This game introduced a few things that weren't seen in prior games…including a couple that weren't used again sadly. The first and foremost of these is the Rod of Seasons. Once you obtain this you can climb aboard tree stumps and change the seasons. You start out with only the ability to change the season to winter, but as the game progresses you'll gain the ability to change to the other seasons as well. This is a pretty interesting mechanic as the different seasons will naturally have different effects on the environment. For instance, some of the water will turn to ice in winter, vines grow in summer, and there are special mushrooms that can be "picked" (ie. picked up and tossed around like the more common vases) in autumn. As to be expected, this is a major mechanic for the game.
Another awesome mechanic are the rings. Early on you can obtain a ring box that can hold one ring for you to equip and you can later get an upgrade that allows you to hold more, even though you can only equip one at a time. As you travel around you'll find rings, typically in chests, and you can take them to Vasu in Horon Village to get them appraised. Some of the rings don't really do anything and are merely for collecting. Others do have some interesting effects, such as increasing the damage of the boomerang or preventing bombs from exploding while you hold one. While most of the time I didn't bother with the rings (plus I've played through Oracle of Seasons on the Game Boy Color when it was first released so I have plenty of experience with it already), it does lead into the main mechanic of the Oracle games: the password system.
You'll notice when you start up a new file you have a Secrets option. Also if you go into the Maku Tree you'll me Farore, the Oracle of Secrets. So just what are secrets? Apparently they're passwords…at least in these games. If you're starting up either Oracle game but you HAVEN'T played the other first, the secrets option is pretty much not used. However, once you beat either Oracle game you'll get a password that you can put into the opposite game when creating a new file. This begins a linked game and has two major purposes. The first is that you can now get passwords you can take over to the other Oracle game, which you can then get another password to take back to the linked game and transfer rings from one game to the other. The other use is a big one in that once you beat the main villain of the game, this time it's not quite over. I won't get into any spoilers, but needless to say there's a bit more to the story in a linked game. With all of that out of the way, let's talk a bit more about Seasons in general.
If you've played both Oracle games, one thing to note right off is that Oracle of Seasons is more combat-oriented than
Oracle of Ages
. Of course you still have your overworld and dungeons to traverse with enemies to fight, but when it comes to the dungeons you'll notice that the puzzles aren't really that difficult to solve. Some may still leave you stumped but the dungeons themselves aren't that difficult to navigate for the most part. What's more is that if you've played the original Legend of Zelda, the bosses will be all too familiar. Classic bosses such as Ghoma, Digdogger, and even Aquamentis return and have new tactics to deal with. For example, Gleeok still has two heads, but now if you don't destroy them fast enough once they're separated from the body they'll reattach themselves and must be separated again.
Another "mechanic" so to speak that's unique to Oracle of Seasons is the ability to use portals to travel to another world called Subrosia. The first time you arrive you'll notice that you don't have a lot of options as to where to go, but as the game progresses and you gain new items you get access to more and more of Subrosia. You'll also soon learn that this is where the Temple of Season now resides and it's where you gain the ability to change the seasons to more than just winter. While interesting, a lot of the time it just seems like a bit of a waste of time and the tasks could have just been placed in Holodrum somehow, but I do like the fact you have to travel to a different land/world/dimension/whatever to gain new powers for the rod that's the focus of the game.
Beyond that, it's your standard Legend of Zelda game: travel to eight dungeons, collect major item, go to final palace, defeat main villain, end of game. The main question is has the game held up over the years since its original release on the Game Boy Color? For the most part, I'd say it has. Is it the greatest Legend of Zelda game ever made? Not quite. Those two remain to be Link to the Past (my personal favorite) and Ocarina of Time amongst most fans. However, I can say that I did have just as much fun replaying this on the 3DS as I did all those years ago on the Game Boy Color. If there's anything that I'd have to criticize it for, it's the fact that, as mentioned before, Seasons is more action oriented as opposed to puzzle-oriented. As stated earlier while there are puzzles in the game, they're not really that troublesome to get past, most of the time it's obvious that you just need to get the dungeon's major item, such as the triple slingshot, and even getting the item isn't that difficult.
Don't get me wrong, I like action in LoZ games, but I prefer a mix of action and puzzles in the games, especially games that feature the main character going through dungeons. Imagine Dungeons and Dragons where you just wander around fighting enemies and never having to worry about checking for traps, or at most you push a few blocks around and a door opens. That's basically how Oracle of Seasons felt to me. Bottom line, if you're a fan of the classic Legend of Zelda games such as the original, Link to the Past, or especially Link's Awakening, I'd recommend Oracle of Seasons. However, we're not quite done here. There are two Oracle games after all, and since I've completed Oracle of Seasons and received the "secret" you get afterwards, it's time to put these secrets to use. While this ends my review of Oracle of Seasons, my next review will be taking a look at Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and we'll see if it's as good as its season counterpart.
Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons is a fun game with an interesting mechanic when it comes to changing the seasons. The secrets mechanic is also interesting, though since this was the first of the two games I played I haven't had the chance to use it yet. If you like the top-down style of Legend of Zelda games, Oracle of Seasons is definitely one to pick up.
Rating: 9 Excellent
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I began my lifelong love of gaming at an early age with my parent's Atari 2600. Living in the small town that I did arcades were pretty much non-existent so I had to settle for the less than stellar ports on the Atari 2600, but for a young kid my age it was the perfect past time, giving me something to do before Boy Scout meetings, after school, whenever I had the time and my parents weren't watching anything on TV. I recall seeing Super Mario Bros. played on the NES at that young age and it was something I really wanted. Come Christmas of 1988 (if I recall) Santa brought the family an NES with Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt and I've been hooked ever since.
Over 25 years from the first time I picked up an Atari joystick and I'm more hooked on gaming than I ever have been. If you name a system, classics to moderns, there's a good chance I've not only played it, but own it. My collection of systems spans multiple decades, from the Odyssey 2, Atari 2600, and Colecovision, to the NES, Sega Genesis, and Panasonic 3DO, to more modern systems such as the Xbox and Wii, and multiple systems in between as well as multiple handhelds. As much as I consider myself a gamer I'm also a game collector. I love collecting the older systems not only to collect but to play (I even own and still play a Virtual Boy from time to time). I hope to bring those multiple decades of gaming experience to my time here at Gaming Nexus in some fashion.
In my spare time I like to write computer programs using VB.NET (currently learning C# as well) as well as create review videos and other gaming projects over on YouTube. I know it does seem like I have a lot on my plate now with the addition of Gaming Nexus to my gaming portfolio, but that's one more challenge I'm willing to overcome.
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The American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) responded to concerns expressed by members about the 15,000 letters sent in April 2012 by the Farm Service Agency (FSA), a branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to individuals who receive certain federal farm payments directing them to provide certification of their income.
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When you're attending a game or watching it on television, the last thing you think about is the lights going out. We certainly never thought we'd witness a power outage at the nation's biggest sports event of the year, but while watching the third quarter of Superbowl LXVII on Sunday, February 3, that's exactly what happened. After a large group of HID light banks suddenly went out, fans, officials, crews, and players were left in near darkness for about 34 minutes.
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Install hot-restrike gear on each HID luminaire. Some manufacturers provide an add-on hot-restrike system for metal-halide lamps. Such systems can sense when a lamp extinguishes and provide a high-voltage starting pulse higher than that typically needed to start a lamp. The pulse will achieve breakdown in the lamp's arc discharge tube, allowing the lamp to restart while hot. These systems do require energy while in standby mode, which will — to some extent — degrade energy performance of the lighting system. These systems can be bulky and expensive, as well as difficult to fit into certain types of lighting fixtures. Some may also require you to install new lamps.
Install an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) on the lighting system. Uninterruptible power has solved a lot of power quality problems when line voltage is not available. Some UPS manufacturers produce systems specifically designed for HID lighting. It is not economical to install a UPS on all HID lighting systems. Depending on the size of the HID system, how frequently it is used, and the financial impact to the customer's business when the lamps go out, a UPS system may not be the best choice either. In addition, using a UPS system will add to the customer's facility load, take up floor space, and require a significant capital investment.
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Dimming is not presently used in sports lighting. However, it may soon become very useful, because arena /stadium officials and broadcasters require a check of the lighting system before dusk. Once the lighting system is verified with the TV cameras, its power could be reduced and then increased as game time approaches. The warm-up time that induction lamps offer over HID lamps will also be of benefit to arena and stadium officials and broadcasters as they desire to have light levels at full output very quickly. A short warm-up time is also extremely complimentary with a zero restrike time that induction lighting offers. In the event of a power problem, the lights will instantly restart and return to full output in less than one minute. With this, no time will be lost during the game, and broadcast schedules can be preserved.
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Vernon students in programs from the arts and sciences to trades, business, and health were honoured at Okanagan College's Vernon campus Thursday night.
A total of 63 scholarships and bursaries were handed out to 41 students totaling $45,750 in 2012.
"Each one of these students has made an outstanding contribution to their own future by applying themselves to their studies, and acting as a role model for others," said North Okanagan Regional Dean Jane Lister.
Bachelor of Business Administration student Nicole Hamming, 19, was presented with two awards at the event – the Valley First Credit Union award and the Alf Peters Memorial Award.
"These awards – along with the ones I have received earlier – mean that I've been able to go to school without needing any student loans and that's taken a load of stress off," Hamming said.
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Developing your own applications
disclaimer: this article is not ready yet
Here I will write how to begin developing your own applications for SHR, using the familiar Hello World program as an example. I will use Vala as the programming language which should be familiar and easy to understand for people with Java experience.
This guide assumes that the reader has already succussfully built SHR using the instructions at Building SHR.
1. Creating a source folder
$ cd /path/to/shr/build $ mkdir my_first_app $ cd my_first_app
2. Writing Hello World in Vala
Create and enter a sub folder for the source:
$ mkdir src $ cd src
Create a file called my_first_app.vala and insert the following text:
class Demo.HelloWorld : GLib.Object { public static int main(string[] args) { stdout.printf("Hello, World\n"); return 0; } }
3. Set up autotools
Go back to the previous folder:
$ cd ..
Create a file called Makefile.am and insert the following text:
SUBDIRS = src
Now go to the source folder once again:
$ cd src
Create another file called Makefile.am and insert the following text:
bin_PROGRAMS = my_first_app AM_CFLAGS = $(DEPS_CFLAGS) AM_LIBS = $(DEPS_LIBS) $(DEPS_LIBS) my_first_app_SOURCES = my_first_app.vala my_first_app_LDADD = $(INTI_LIBS) my_first_app_LDFLAGS = $(AM_LIBS) clean: rm -f *.c *.o *.stamp
Go back to the top level folder:
$ cd ..
Create a file called configure.ac and insert the following text:
AC_INIT([my_first_app],0.1) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/my_first_app.vala]) AC_PROG_CC m4_pattern_allow AM_PROG_VALAC([0.8.1]) AC_OUTPUT([Makefile src/Makefile])
Run the following commands:
$ aclocal $ autoconf $ touch AUTHORS NEWS README ChangeLog COPYING INSTALL $ automake --add-missing
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Implementing tool for plagiarism detection
Marija Sljivovic
Student e-mail:
maka82 AT gmail DOT com
Student Major:
Computer Science; Mathematics
Student Degree:
Student Graduation:
Winter 2009
Apache RAT
This document is about Apache RAT cut&paste detector: http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2009#rat-project
There are explained some ideas discussed on rat-dev mailing list.
My aim is to create working, modular, configurable command-line tool for searching the web based code search engines for possible plagiarized code in our code bases.
Tool will be heuristic in nature. It will make guesses about code parts. If it decide that code is good-to-be-copy&pasted, it will check if there is matching code on code search engines. Any match found will be copied to a report. Man who read this report will decide about if the code is really copied or not.
Command line parsing
We decide this tool have to be a command-line tool.
All input parameters will be sent to program with command-line arguments
or will be provided with configuration(xml or plaintext) file.
This config-file can be loaded automatically(like Ant does)
or by specifying it like command line argument.
For now I think about this parameters:
- source-code location
- mode in which checker will be working(brute force, heuristic, combined...)
- source code programing language(this is very important for heuristic logic)
search engines on which source code will be checked. For this i think that argument can be class name of ISearchEngine implementation I explained it previous.
- stuffs connected with report(location, format or...)
I think that it is enough 5 days in the beginning of coding(I newer code parser for command line arguments before, but I think I can use RAT's)
Design of plagiarism module interface
Sliding window module
Basic example of this algorithm I already coded. Lets talk about two version of this algorithm:
- one for brute-force checking - this algorithm I already made
- one which will use heuristic.
It will work like previous but with different input(source file from which we removed all getter's, setters and other code chunks we are not interested in) , and will use list off different "good-to-be-copied-code" recognition methods. This methods are not part of this algorithm and will be probably separated by an interface. This heuristic methods will be codded separate of this task and will get more time then rest of code. Because of that I think to write only several of them in the beginning and rest of on the end of timeframe. Main difference between this two algorithms will be that second will rarely call search engines. For writing these two algorithms and implementation of few basic heuristic methods(only for one language) I think that is enough 10 days
This algorithms will call ISearchEngine (or more of them). I found that some of code search engines cannot get correct result if we send them large number of tokens. This is quite unexplored lend to me... For writing these parsers I hope that will take me another 10 days.
After this first version will be completed. Then I plan to look back to see if design of application is good or I must change something.
This project have to be wall-tested. Because of that I will write tests for every heuristic method. It is good practice to write tests after each functionality is finished(or even before it ) I think to use JUnit Test source will be loaded from files that exists in code engines and from files which I manually checked to be unique. Probably I will have test source code for whole algorithm and for each of heuristic methods. When (probably and in some occasions before ) tool pass all my test , I will do real testing on search engines. Then I will do same thing - use non plagiarised code I wrote and code I got from source-repositories which are indexed by search engines and run this tests on real. Writing this tests for small number of heuristic methods will take huge amount of time, but I think that this will enlarge time for 10-15 days. Because of my poor Internet connection, I plan to make my own search engine on localhost and tray this tool on it.(I think I will use Struts2 and Apache Lucene if it is easy to use...)
This is aproximative time-line for this project:
- Command line parsing...23-29. of May
- Sliding Window module...1-12 of June.
- Parsers...15-26 of June
- Code refactor, Maven
- Testing...30 of June- 17 of July
- Making pause/continue functionality
- Making tool multithreading
- Making new hueristic methods
- More testing
Some of tasks can be merged with testing. I hope that there will no need for code refactoring. If this estimation is correct, I hope to have working tool in first half of July.
Here you can see very basic prototipe for tool which I plan to make.
This simple demo tool checks is source code is cut&pasted from somewhere by searching on
Google code search, Koders code search....
Tool is still unfinished with very basic usability.....
Additional Information:
I took a part in Gsoc2008 in project "JSP demo for ICU4J " which I successfully completed. Since then I develop several tiny tools and using knowledge I got in this project I am developping Russian-Serbian dictionary with two views - web based dictionary and desktop java application.
Additional ideas:
I found that Google Code search have an API for client side code checking:
I found several thing about this api. This api have Apache Licence which means that we can use it in this project. I downloaded this libraries and make several simple test cases. It is easy to use and have great performance. What is more important, this api have almost all functionality I we want to GoogleCodeSearch api to have.
By using it in I found that it is very powerful if it is used with regular expressions. One of greatest problems I found earlier with Google Code search is that long queries are not parsed properly by Google Code search. Using this api with regular expressions I successfully retrieved some multi-word queries. It supports filtrating by language, licence, file name, package...
Progress reports
- 5/17/2009
BruteforceHeuristicChecker is added. It will be used if user wants to check all code. If used, it override all other heuristic checkers. JavaCommentHeuristicChecker and PascalCommentHeuristicChecker are finished, together with basic junit tests. Class which converts source code to regular expressions query for google code search is added. Tests for it are added too. Now, tool can check correctly small parts of code(150 tokens is maximum) It is noticed that for number of tokens greater then 150 google code search stops to respond properly...It will be a problem. It happened when parser which use raw http GET query is used. I hope that this problem will be solved if gdata-codesearch API is used. I will tray it. Temporally svn is created. There will be most fresher version of source. url: http://code.google.com/p/apache-rat-pd/
- 5/20/2009
GoogleCodesearch engine is switched from using html parser to using grata-codesearch API. Because gdata api is not mavenized, adding it to local maven repository must be done manually. Script files that do that task are written and can be found on http://code.google.com/p/apache-rat-pd/ in download section.
- 5/28/2009
New class PdCommandLine is created together with tests for it. Source can be found on svn: http://code.google.com/p/apache-rat-pd/ This class can parse arguments from command line and store them in properties If some arguments are not provided, it sets default values to them. Only required property is codebase. It can parse arguments stored in configuration file,too. Default configuration file name is config.conf and it is assume that it is in the same directory with apache-rat-pd and tool always try to read it.
Test are completed, except one for reading file.
Arguments passed to PdCommandLine are parsed and values are set to proper class member. After that configuration file is parsed. If path to configuration file is provided by command line argument, we try to parse that configuration file. Otherwise, default configuration "config.conf" file is parsed. After this two steps if any of members is not initialized, we initialize them with default values.
apache-rat-pd now uses this way for parsing command line arguments.
List of all avaible options and usage:
Usage is: java -jar apache-rat-pd.jar [options]
-c,--config <file> name of the config file
-cb,--codebase <dir> name of source code directory
-e,--engines <names> list of engines
-h,--help print this message
-heur,--heuristics <names> list of heuristics
-l,--limit <int> integer from 1 to 100,1 is almost brute
force and 100 is heuristic
-r,--report <file> name of the report file
-e GoogleCodeSearchParser,myParser
-heur BruteForceHeuristicChecker
-limit 75
-r myreport.txt
-cb c:/src
New dependency is added to project. It depends from common-cli-1.1.jar. pom.xml has been changed. Manifest has been changed too. New test cases for parsing configuration file are added. Validation of arguments is now done using org.apache.commons.lang.Validate class. Code is more readable now. More tests for parsing arguments from configuration file are written. Support for multiple search engines checking is added to core algorithm. Tests for sliding window algorithm are updated.
Code is refactored to be more modular.There is no new functionality added. Sliding window algorithm is moved to separate class - SourceCodeAnalyser. It is injected from main function. So, it can easy be changed with another implementation. Now reports are generated in separate class - ReportDocument and it is injected, too. For reading of source file is used way which use Apache-RAT 0.6. Generally speaking, code is now more modular, dependency injection approach is used on all place it can be used. All project architecture is similar to Apache-RAT's. Tests are updated. No one functionality is added.
I think that logic for retry and waiting does not have to be in sliding window algorithm. This algorithm gets information from parser objects and only parser objects can know when retrieval is failed or when it is time to wait. So, this type of logic is in parser for now.
RetryManager class is added. It is here to hide retry and timeout logic. This logic protects application from exceptions caused by network problems or late response from server. Waiting between two queries can avoid DDOS alarm on SearchEngine. This part of code is in separate class because it will probably be common for all SearchEngine parsers.
Heuristic checkers for comments in Java, JavaScript, C++ and C# have been written. Since comments in them have the same syntax the same tests used for Java can be used for others. Because checking is done on similar way they all extend the same class. It will be considered for a code not to be a valid comment if there are some characters before comment or after comment.
Package structure is changed little.
By the list of most popular programming languages I choose some most popular of them to do heuristic checkers for them(http://langpop.com/): C, Java ,C++ ,PHP,C# ,Perl ,Python ,Ruby, JavaScript ,Delphi, Pascal, SQL, Fortran, Visual Basic, Lisp ,Cobol, Actionscript, ColdFusion, Shell, HTML
Plan is to cover first them by heuristic checkers and then eventualy add new to list. For now, CommentCheckers are written for this languages. In all situations, when matching comment, it is considered that it is best to match comment even it is not written on right way(HTML comment for example) then to miss one which is comment(Different implementations of same programming language compiler can have different way of commenting). That is a reason because I have written regular expressions more general. When I am not quite sure about way of writing comments in particular programming languages, I point out it in //TODO. Tests for all heuristic checkers are written, too.
Project pom.xml file is changed in way that it can now package build and resolve the dependencies (excluding transitive dependencies) from the repository and place a copy of it in the build location.
Hew heuristic checkers for recognising functions are written for this languages ActionScript, CFunction, C++, C#,Delphi, Java, JavaScript, Pascal, PHP. Like in comments, here are in use more general regular expressions for functions matching(Function heuristic checker must recognize function , but can not say if it is correctly written)
Also misspelling checker is written. This misspellings checker use English dictionary for decision if some word is correctly written. Misspellings checker can decompose combined words and check it then. Decomposition can be done by CamelCase notation or if underscore sign is used. So far, I use simple dictionary class but plan is to get dictionary dynamically during build process from the Internet.
Most of the time was spend on searching informations about use regular expressions in Google Search Code engine. There is a little resources but I found out some things. I made some simple test - cases for quering GoogleCodesearch. From generated logs I found some answers. Very good thing is that we got feed back from Google Search Code discussion group where many solutions for my problems were found out. More information about that can be found here: http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Code-Search/browse_thread/thread/2064067f869ddc71?hl=en
Basic idea is that GoogleCodeSearch cannot return good enough results if regular expression is not written in way to match whole lines. Even then lot of results are only partially matched with improper order. Because of that, here is written another algorithm for analysing degree of similarity between returned results code and source code directly in this program.
For now, in use is Levenshtein's distance algorithm and checking if results match proper regular expression. Distance algorithm is adjustable by setting similarity factor.
For better results, more research must be done, but possible improvements can be done if I can process source code files returned from GoogleCodesearch. GoogleCodeSearch cannot support this, but it can be done using third party libraries for HTML parsing like HTMLUnit.
Potential problem is that query length cannot be longer then 1024 characters. But it can be fixed by splitting code in smaller parts and query GoogleCodeSearch engine more times. More tests are written. Old bugs in regex generating are fixed using knowledge from my research about GoogleCodeSearch.
Now we can print current progress in percentage form.
Heuristic checkers for functions have been written for following languages - Fortran and VisualBasic.Decomposer of words is improved and some changes have been done on previous commit function heuristic checkers - CFunctionHeuristicChecker, CPPFunctionHeuristicChecker,DelphiFunctionHeuristicChecker, JavaFunctionHeuristicChecker and PascalFunctionHeuristicChecker. New tests have been written and for C and C++ have been added regular expressions for macro and inline functions.
While testing my application very serious bug was found. I did not give attention to URL encoding when using gdata-codesearch api , so when special characters are in URL, query is giving wrong results. Now, when it is fixed, there is no difference between results retrieved from GoogleCodeSearch site and from gdata-codesearch api. Syntax highlighting of retrieved results works good, too.
Also, I have notice that it has some bugs when for heuristic checker is set some of commentHeuristicCheckers. It recognizes only first comment. To fix this I have added one new class HeuristicCheckerResult. This class gives informations about what was found by certain heuristic checker and adjusts operating sliding window algorithm so that he can find functions and comments which do not begin from the start of a string.
Also, concept suggestedCodeForChecking was establish. It will be assigned by every heuristic checker. This way, heuristic checker can give better suggestion of a code to be checked on search engine. For example: for misspellings it will not be necessary to check all code but only misspelled words.
I have also notices bug that for some strings use of some regular expressions can hung application. The problem is caused by this regular expression : (\\s|.*)* I found some information about this problem and I will continue my research how to fix this problem using regular expressions like this. http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4771934
Now it is possible to pause checking process and resume after that just by pressing enter. That way,user can pause execution of an actions for as long as it is needed for search engine to start responding to the queries again.
A solution for preventing endless loop mentioned before is found. More informations about this solution can be found here : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/851057/how-to-prevent-regular-expression-of-hang-or-set-time-out-for-it-in-net/859074
Bug causing that application newer really ends is fixed.Support for generating queries with language information is added. Information about language is used based on which heuristic checker is used -JavaFunctionHeuristicChecker will cause queries to be generated for Java language and so on...
GoogleCodeSearchParser is improved. It can split very long queries and now error "query too long" is not happening any more. Tests are updated.
I have tested new version of application repeating tests and compared the results with previous versions of application. Many improvements have been done (better recognises text suspected to be plagiarised, some regular expressions have been simplified )and results are much better. I have noticed that the results are hard to read and that there must be something done about format of a report.
Support to define language of source code from command line is added. If language is not defined from command line option, it can be retrieved from current heuristic checker. Verbose option in command line is added. It manage how much information will be displayed in console in run-time. Tests are, again, updated.
For some time I am working on a implementation of Koders search parser. Aim is to make working and maintenanceable version of Koders engine parser. It must have ability to load koders.com webpage, to enter query and parse retrieved result page - and to extract useful information from it. Sometimes it can be more then one page with results to check. This code must be easy to maintenance and change(if site is changed). Same thing must be done with Krugle code search [2] With Krugle there is another option called "advanced search". It can be used for large code part search. With Google Code search it is easy because google have library to access that service.
There is no other library which can parse GWT (GoogleCodeSearch) and other java-script pages with this amount of a success. HTMLUnit is licensed by Apache2.0 license. It is already mavenised. Only disadvantage of using this library in our code is a lot of project dependencies and it's name, but even if it is mainly used for testing, it can be used very well to retrieve information from web, too. So, I believe that using this library will help us to work with all three parsers in common way.
Started discussing about code with one of my mentors.
[3] http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/
Initial version of Koders code search parser is written. With it I already can parse koders code search result page and read code from GoogleCodeSearch (GWT is supported )which can not regularly be retrieved by gdata-codesearch api. Gdata-codesearch api does not have support to retrieve language of search result but using HTMLUnit it is possible. I give sample code to community to discuss about this approach for working with code search engines different from Google Code Search. On apache-rat-pd project page is sample of using HTMLUnit to parse Koders code search engine. [4]
I have been working on a reports. Now we use search result class which consist all data relevant to one search result.
Report is in basic list of search results. This change allows us to make more verbose reports with different formats. So far reports can be exported as html, txt or xml files. In addition, it allows us to add more searchEngineParser class without changes in core of project.Selection of format can be done by -report command line option( "-report myReport.html" for example) Support for choosing proper report format from command line is added, too.
Now, from GoogleCodeSearch engine we can get license, class name, package, project, owner... information.
Some of regular expressions in heuristic checkers are corrected again. That regular expression caused sometimes hang of
application and stack overflow exception because of backtracking problem. I tested application and found bug - when in code is "$" sign, stringToRegex function breaks. More JUnit tests are added.


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The electricity company that he works for considers US$ 100 equal to SR 400 (for example). So whether the bill payer pays US$ 100 or SR 400, it is equal. Sometimes the price of US$ 100 equals SR 403 or more. Is it permissible for the collector to take the bill value in Dollars then exchange them into Riyals and pays 400 Riyals for every US$ 100 he collected and then takes the difference of price for himself?.
Collectors for electricity companies and other representatives are entrusted with whatever money comes to them, and they have no right to dispose of it in any way other than that for which their bosses have given them permission. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
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Only 23% of UK marketers said they were able to update multiple channels from one dashboard, for example.
5. What are the right channels for us?
It seems as though every day a new social network comes onto the scene. It is tempting to set up accounts all over the place, but it is also probably a risky strategy. Much better to do some research, find out where your customers are and then focus on the channels that really matter to them.
The social media opportunity is clear, but realising this opportunity is beset with problems and questions. While the answers might not be straightforward, it is much better to answer them now than further down the line when the strategy might need to be totally overhauled.
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It's incredible that 40% of companies either don't have an individual dedicated to Social Media yet or don't expect to have one.
They're missing out on a consistent voice and communication channel with their customers and clients.
They will also be lacking the ability to grow their network of brand advocates who are loyal and keen to be associated with them.
Oh well, that's their loss while the companies who embrace Social Media thrive and move forward.


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Good investors understand the concept of diversification and its benefits in managing risk.
However, although many do diversify with individual holdings, the majority falls short when diversifying from a global standpoint.
That's understandable as it's natural to invest in what you know, which most often means domestic companies with familiar products and services. But there is a lot of opportunity for investors who look farther afield.
Institutional investors and pension funds have long recognized this.
The Canada Pension Fund (CPP), ranked as one of the 10 largest retirement funds in the world, has allocated only 16.7% of its equity holdings to Canadian investments, compared to 69.8% for foreign developed markets and 13.5% to emerging markets. For fiscal 2013 it had a 10.1% rate of return.
The world's largest pension fund, Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund, has 43.5% of its equity investment allocated to international stocks and posted 10.2% for fiscal 2012.
Investors who stick to investing at home introduce a lot of risk to their portfolios. There are more than 30 major equity markets globally and Canada represents less than 4% of world stock market capitalization.
The likelihood of at least a few other countries outperforming Canadian markets in the coming years is strong and, just as it is rare for a specific asset class or individual equity to consistently outperform year over year, the same applies to stock markets.
Adding a global lens to the portfolio guards against sector concentration.
Nearly 80% of the S&P/TSX 60 is comprised of three sectors — financials, energy and materials.
By looking elsewhere, investors gain access to sectors such as health care, which are under-represented in Canada.
Accessing markets worldwide allows investors to take advantage of global wealth trends. Credit Suisse reports that global wealth has reached an all-time high of US$241 trillion and the average wealth per adult is US$51,600.
Analysts believe these numbers will increase 40% over the next five years, with emerging markets accounting for 29% of that growth.
More wealth brings more funds available to invest, which bodes well for global markets.
For income investors, global investing provides an opportunity to boost overall portfolio yield.
According to Guardian Capital, 58% of world market returns are derived from dividends. In some countries the numbers are even higher.
Although global dividends aren't subject to the Canadian dividend tax credit, investors can hold most global equities in registered plans for tax efficiency purposes.
Investing globally can introduce some risks, such as foreign exchange and liquidity, and transaction costs can be higher in some international markets.
Investors can mitigate these risks by accessing global equities via managed products such as exchange-traded funds or mutual funds. These will provide diversified exposure to the global markets, thereby reducing liquidity concerns, and many can be bought with currency hedging.
Transaction costs are often reduced by the sheer size of managed products and the resulting economies of scale.
Kim Inglis, CIM, PFP, FCSI, AIFP is an investment adviser and portfolio manager with Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management, a division of Canaccord Genuity Corp., Member – Canadian Investor Protection Fund.


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Minsk has a large railway network which connects Brest, Moscow, Vilnius and Gomel. There is a national airport in the capital.large railway network
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Analyzing this information tells you that 77% of the exam comes from the 4 big ones (canine, feline, equine, and bovine) with only a small number of questions coming from each other species. However, it is common to hear students complain that it seemed like there were a ton of pig questions or bird questions. This is probably because most students learn less about those areas in school and it is natural to primarily remember the questions that you thought were the most challenging. This is the same reason that over 90% of students walk out of the exam convinced that they did not study enough and probably failed while the vast majority actually did just fine.
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The amended guidelines introduce a new analysis and a new acronym—DEMPE, for the "development, enhancement, maintenance, protection and exploitation" of intangibles—that has given the concept too much weight, MIchael McDonald, an economist in Treasury's Office of Tax Analysis, told a conference March 28.
"One concept that not only runs through the intangibles chapter but the rest of the guidelines is 'let's not get hung up on labels,'" he said. "When you get hung up on labels, sometimes you take your eye off the ball."
DEMPE "is a qualitative tool to help assist a functional analysis," McDonald said at a global transfer pricing conference in Paris sponsored by Bloomberg BNA and Baker McKenzie LLP.
The OECD's October 2015 final report on transfer pricing, under its project to combat tax base erosion and profit shifting, provides that members of a multinational group "be compensated based on the value they create through" DEMPE functions.
In his capacity as a U.S. delegate to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development working party, McDonald was a key author of the October 2015 final report on BEPS Actions 8, 9 and 10 that rewrote the OECD's transfer pricing guidance on intangibles, including Chapter 6 of the OECD transfer pricing guidelines.
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All contributions to value must be appropriately remunerated for transfer pricing purposes, McDonald said. To that end, the working party noted specific contributions of value that might be particularly relevant when it comes to intangibles—the notion of developing, enhancing, and maintaining an intangible.
Chapter 6 of the transfer pricing guidelines provides that the ultimate allocation of returns to intangibles is accomplished by compensating members of a multinational group according to the principles of Chapters 1 to 3 of the OECD guidelines, he said.
"Don't tell me that legal ownership trumps everything," McDonald said. "It needs to be more than that. But I'm sorry—this is not a revolutionary concept. This is transfer pricing 101. Everyone in this room has been doing that for 20 years if you have been doing transfer pricing appropriately."
In coming up with a list of important functions that tend to be relevant for intangibles, "we came up with something that can be acronymized," McDonald said. That fact, he indicated, may have given the concept too much weight.
"We created another label. It was inadvertent. What we didn't want in my opinion is for this new DEMPE label to become a thing, to become a target, to become something that ultimately becomes a quantitative method."
McDonald said the working party tried to provide guidance saying the relative importance of these functions completely depends on the facts. "If you are acquiring an intangible for a third party, that might be the only important thing, and you don't really need to talk about some of these other functions. They might not have a lot of relative value."
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The rain and wind is dying down a bit after a series of storms over the weekend, setting records for September rainfall and wind speed all over the Northwest. The main impact from over the weekend is the closure of West Side Highway between Beacon Hill Road and Solomon Road, a closure that will remain in place until further notice. The highway was closed Saturday night, when water rushing from a damaged culvert had severely eroded the soil supporting the highway. The culvert had been targeted for repair this weekend, but the severe storms had prevented that work. Washington Department of Transportation engineers plan to assess the damage and will set a timeline for temporary repairs early this week. You're advised to use I-5 as an alternate route. Several Kelso School bus routes are being adjusted as a result of the closure. Bus routes 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 will pick children up at their regular stops and regular times, but because of the re-routing, they will arrive at school late. This afternoon, expect those same kids to be home late, but they will be delivered to their regular stops.
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Each hall goes on their own hall events (corn maze, sleep over, bowling, cardinals game) and when going out with friends for fun the best things to do are to go to Jordan Valley Park (they have fountains and it's free), go to a movie (either Hollywood theater or the Palace), basketball games, volleyball games, and there is a game room by Zee's where one can play pool, carpet ball, or various other board games.Read More
There is the gym where each night a big group of guys go down and play basketball. Getting involved with a local youth group and helping out is really fun. It is also a great learning experience. Many hang out in the dorms and play video games and watch movies. There is a zoo right down the street from campus and the fair grounds right across the street.Read More
The city of Springfield, MO is great for all sorts of things. There is a great mall in town. Bass Pro shops is super cool! There are tons of things to do in the city. There are at least 2 other Universities in the city so there are students and activities everywhere.Read More
The school offers a gym, and outside basket ball court for those that are interested in playing. The school has a tennis court, racquetball court, and a pond for fishing.Read More
There are several coffee shops around the area with a variety of different venues. There is also an ice skating rink, a roller skating rink, a few movie theaters, and several parks.Read More
There are many different things that you can do for fun. You can always go fishing, there is a small pond on campus and there fishing tournaments close by. But getting to go out and fellowship and minister on the weekends is always an awesome experience.Read More